303 Incouragement to thefe that hunger. ged with the Tufts of the flesh, and the delires of the world, preferments, honours, riches, pleafures of ir, they could be. without the word if it were for a whole twelve. month toge- ther, but only through carome they come and heare, whereas the poor hungry foul when it hach been at the word but one day,it longs for the time to have another males meate,andfor another meales meat, and cannot tell how tofpare one meales meat, now that's a figne that fuch a foule is in a thrivingcon- dition, be then encouraged from this. Thirdly, There is an infinite fountaine of grace that is let open for pore foules. Thou that hungreft and thirfieft after righteoufnefs, there is an infinite fountaine of grace, and there is bread enough in thy Fathers houfe. Thou needeft not feeke to fatisfie thy oule with husks, there's bread enough; My flefh is meat indeed, and my blood io drink indeed: Jefus Chrüt is an inui_e fountaine of al! grace, he is filled with all the fulnefs of God,& to that end, that from him hungring and thirfring foties might be fatisfied, therefore Chrift is thus filled ; z john 16. Of ,bio fulnef a have ¡all we rece:ved grace for grace. There is' grace anfwerable unto the grace of Chrifi, to be received from his fulnefs, and though it's true, there's emptineffe in thy own heart, and emptinefe in all ordinances any further then Ch: it} is in them, yet there is a fountaine ofgrace fo: thy fatisfying, an in.Tnice fountaine that bath been the fountaine from whence all hungring foules fnçe the world began have been fatisfied, and it's open for thee, and thou mayeft come as freely for it as ever any foule did, to take that that may fatis,ie thy foule. Fourthly, Thefe hungring defires of thine, are railed by no other then the Hely Ghoft himfelfe In the 8 Romans it's the Holy Choit that reaches us how to pray and fend up groan: s and fghs unutterable, it's the Spirit of Cod that helps our in- firmities : Now in thefe hungrings and rhirfrings of thine, haft not thou been in the prefence of God fending up groans and - fighs unutterable. Surely thy petitions, are like to be heard, that are indieledby the HolyGhofr himfelfe ; when thou art crying for this bread of life, to overcome thy f n,to enable thee to
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